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THE DANES.

Of the small nations of Europe Den
mark is the one most brilliant of all in
regard to great and prominent men.
AS Hans Christian Andersen is the most
Dane of the Danes and an eminent
writer of prose fiction of highly poet
zeal character. we here present short
narrative of this remarkable Dane. He
was born the I'd of April, 1906, in the
chief town of the island of Funen. Den
mark. From his very infancy Andersen
ton, and was timid. dreamy child.
He has himself most minutely depicted
his own childish character under the
name of Christian in ''Only Fiddler"
He used to play Shakespeare king
Lear in his own little puppet thea
ter, and by hanging about the
playhouse at OdenSe, when the Copen-
hagen actors came there, he managed to
get admitted and to be employed on the
mute parts. At StayclSe he received
free education in the Latin school, but
soon his mother was prevailed on by a
fortune-teller to send him to Copen-
hagen. In 1881 he went to Germany,
and in 1888 to Rome. Here he became
acquainted with ThorwaIdSen. the great
Danish sculptor, and an intimate friend
ship ensued. He had now already pub
lshed his book, ''Skygge-Bitteder," that
made him famous as writer of novels.
Subsequent works of Andersen were his
"Eventye," "0dense TughthunS," "The
Moorish Girl" "a Poets Bazaar" THE
Flower of Fortune" and Andersen's
chief production, pictures of Sweden"
QS5D, the most delightful book he ever
wrote. He died at Copenhagen in 1875.
and gave all his property and large IL
60, OF, n
that city. As said before, Hans Christ
ian Andersen is the Dane par excellence,
and as such deserves place in this
''Syttendemai Feast
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TRA PIT,
HENRIK IBSON.

narrative of lbSen commences, "a mid
dle-aged Norwegian gentleman, who
walks in and out among the inhabitants
of that gay city, observing all things, OBJ
served by few, retired, cOntemplative,
unaggreSSive. Occasionally he sends a
roll of NJ. S. S. off to Copenhagen, and
the Danish papers announce that a new
poem of Ibsen's is about to appear. This
announcement causes more stir than
perhaps any other can among literary
circles in Scandinavia. Norwegian
friends, expressing themselves more
tersely, think that the greatest Morse
writer ought to come home and
live. Still, however, he remains
in Germany. This Henry Ibsen
was born on March 20, 1928, at Skien,
small market town on the sea in the
southeast of Norway. He began active
life as an apothecary, but poetry and
scholarship were dearer to him than all
things. He wrote tragedy and met
with MacenaS who would publish it.
1t was ''Catiline,' a drama in three acts,
JOLT Biarme. "Catiline" is the. york of
a boy, but with this production under
his arm Ibsen came to the capital in
1851 and began to study at the univer-
Sity. Afterwards he was so fortunate as
to meet with gifted man, who at once
perceived his genius, Ole Bull, the great
viOliniSt. At his intercession 1bsen
became director of the theater at
Bergen, and held the post
till 1857. In 1868 came out
the famous satirical drama Loves
Comedy" which was un boundly appre-
ciated for it's so entirely new style. In
1864 Ibsen left Norway, and, as far as
| known, has only once re-entered it. For
long while he was dOmiciled in Rome,
| and while there wrote the book which
has popularized his name most thor
oughly. 1t is Brand" a wonderful
drama of nearly three hundred pages.
Eight large editions of this book have
been sold. 1t has been Ibsens fortune
in life to rise very slowly, like Dryden,
into the full exercises of his powers. In
each successive drama we find more
ample expression and greater audacity
of thought than in the one before it.
That's IbSen, the greatest living Nor
wegian dramatist, whose picture we are
pleased to present to the readers to-day
on the Norwegian birthday of independ-
ence.
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THE NOBLE PART
Foreigners Have Taken IN Build
ing UD the United States.

IHS Up Shc oHtGcU SS.ttc5.
Had the trainers of the federal consti-
tuition been able to foresee how. in few
years, the continent woHid be filed WtiI
men and women from other lands, they
would likely have tried to guard against
the evils which, in their opinion, must
attend such a cOnglomeration of for
eignerS Oh American soil. / think that
that power of foresight was not ac-
corded to them.
For to the absence of limitations, other
than the most elementary ones of the
civic and personal rights OF our foreign
population, is largely due the all in-
portant fact that all Americans, regard
less of nativity and prior conditions,
may be said to constitute one great
American nation. A different policy
could not have failed to produce widely
different results. Singled out by laws
and public opinion as suspected and
suspicious class, the foreigners would
never have become identified with the
country and the people as they now
have. Irritation. ill feeling and bitter
ness would have been produced, result
ing, at best, in the continuance of those
national and race features which now
are so happily absent.
To the foreigners themselves, how
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BJoRNsTJERNE BJoENSoN. of Norway, al
the foot of the beautiful Dovrc mount
aims. where his father was Lutheran
clergyman. While the poet was yet
mere boy his father was transferred tC
the celebrated RomSdal, one OF the finest
valleys in Western Norway. Here the
s0mher hueS of the mountain masses are
mingled with the varigated Splendor 0i
the valley. Dark tjords stretch their
long arms into the country, and the en-
virOnments are of no slight Importance
in the development of genius. Amid
these scenes BjOrnSon spent the happy
days of his childhood. At the age of l.
BjornSon was sent to the Model gram
mar school. But he is said to have been
dull scholar. When he was only Is
years old he organized a society OF boys
and founded paper, written by hand.
Its name was, as might be expected.
Liberty" Liberty is the word that
fully characterizeS Bjornson: liberty is
Norge" To the university Of ChriStiana
he was sent in 1852. He continued to
neglect his regular studies, and devoted
himself to poetry and Journalism. Car
ing but little for books, he studied all
| the more earnestly the volumes of ma
ture and human society, both of which
he has interpreted with remarkable
force and beauty. Biornson's literary
career really begins with the year 1857,
when he published his first novel, "Syn-
move SOlbakken." which made him at
once famous. As a novelist and orator
BjornsOn is perhaps without Il peer i'll
the North of Europe. His delineation
of delicate female types has not
yet been surpassed AS to politics, he
has always struggled for the indepen-
dence of Norway: and when Bjornson
writes Il national song it is at once taken
| up and sung by the whole nation. For
several years Bjornson has been accus-
toned to reside at Paris, where ii was
the luck of the writer to make his ac-
| quaintance a few years ago. BiOrnSon
| is still in the prime of his life: and
| much-perhapS the beSt-is yet to be
expected from this great man. In pre-
pairing the above little biography, we
| have availed ourselves of the excellent
narrative written by Rasmus B. Ander-
son, and prefaced the English transla-
! ton ''Synnove SOlbakken, published by
! him at Boston, 1881.
In Sketching the life of this great Nor
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tie newspaper headline. The word Bud
stikken means message staff, that is to
say, the famous staff which, in ancient
Scandinavia, was sent from village to
village to convoke a judicial meeting or
to call upon the people to take up arms,
while beacons, lighted here and there
upon the SUBMITS of the mountains,
spread the same summons to the most
distant parts of the country. Speaking
of Dagbladet in Christiania, it might be
of interest to mention that Nicolai
Grevstad, formerly the editor of chord
vestern,'' ST. Paul, has left Minnesota
lately for ChriStiania, to assume the edi-
torial leadership, it is said, of Dag
bladet.
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And Whose Achievements Are Dearly
Priced By the Fair Haired Sons
of the North.
Wergeland, Ibsen, Biornsen and Others
Names Held Sacrd on This
Day Of Jubilee
History Yields of lis Treasured Stores
Their Fame and Renown to Re-
call the Days Agone.
Old Memories Renewed by Familiar
Faces From the Pages Of Nor
ways Great History.

Inseparably connected with the OBJ
scrvance of this great holiday. the
"Sytteu de Mai" are several at least of
the great names that have added to the
fame of Norway.
The observance of the 18th of May
was not begun Immediately after the
meeting at Eidsvold, SolemniZed by the
Norwegian people. 1t took no less than
ten years of time, together with the
brilliant and imposing character OF
Henrik Wergeland, before it became a
national holiday. The occasion was
furnished. it is said. 10y the memorial so
called "Market-tight'' in 1929, when
Henrik Wergeland's presence in Christ
iania, and his strong protest against
Karl JOhan. made the day what it is
and since then has been-the Norway
national holiday.
OF this distinguished Norwegian. the
following narrative. descriptive Of his
life, might be of interest to the reader:
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JOHAN SVERDRUP.

who learned him to appreciate the
French doctrines newly in vogue at that
time of Liberty, equality, fraternity"
He received for the most part private
education, and in 1888 he graduated.
After this he studied jurisprudence and
took the eXamen of juris doctor in 1S41
with best characters. In 1850 he was
elected for the first time to the Nor
We aria ou Tl VIII wIlat th we over
ingman's ticket. And since then he has
faithfully stood by his constitutions.
His life and work is too we'll known to
need any commentator or lengthy de-
scription, so we pass over to the great
musician, Ole Bull.
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NORTHERN NEWS.
Some thing About Norway and Its
Newspapers.

Something About Norway and Its
Newspapers.
AS las been alluded to in another
place, Norway is inhabited by a sparse,
poor, but liberiy-loving population. 1t
has few considerable towns, and hence
the number CT its political journals is
comparatively small. 1t is remarkable,
though. that of the papers published in
Norway not only nine-tentilS are organs
OF the .so-called Liberty party but that
they are all edited with unusual ability
Christiania has several CailieS. of which
only the Morgenblad and the Dagblad
are said to have good circulation
They are not near as large as their con-
temporaries of Stockholm, but edited
with equal ability, and with the charac-
teristic spirit with which the Nor
wegians have always asserted and
maintained tlleir liberties. BerZen,
Drontheim, and two or three other cities
likewise boast daily papers, all of small
size and limited circulation. Verlden's
Gang is the organ of the BiornsOnites.
and is perhaps the most widely read
newspaper in Norway at the present
time. The modern labor movement has
also an organ in the ChriStiania Social
Demokrat (weel1ly paper.) In reference
to the Norwegian press it might be of
interest to explain here, especially for
the American readers, the real signifi-
canoe of the word Budstikken. so often
heard of in Minneapolis by reason of a
well-llnown Norwegian weekly news
paper bearing that name. 1t is favor
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Nobody Knew 1t.

BY Bjomstierne Bjomson- TRANSLATED by T
lie la2ily d0dgedarornd:
She 1neTrily TIPPED the ground;
Shs. laugh d in chat
, With Jimmy and Pat;
Ills heart wr;ng i'll sIfferings through it,
But dEs-there was nobody knew it.
She went down the garden that day
VI heiirile rame to wish her goodbye"
In Die grass down She laid,
Z She wept and she pray'd;
Her life S,hope had vanished drought it.,
But alsis-there was nobody knew it.
Years went IL the usual train
AID when he returned again
She had found her peace
She never did cease
TO love him-faith, she died through it,
But alas-there was nobody knew it.
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A Suffers Hopeful View.

TUCK.
mo, George" she said, firmly, but
gently. Il cannot be your wife. Father
is old and feeble, and since mothers
death has no one to care for him but
me. If it were otherwise" she went on,
in a lower, softer, sweeter tone, land |
were free to listen to-but, ah, not" she
finished, with sigh; lit cannot bet
cannot be!'
whats the matter with waiting,
dear?" responded George with infinite
tenderness and hope. perhaps the old
man may skip soon."
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a. E' NohDhN sh'oLD' that the lad
cared more for practical than theo-
retical learning. His first exper-
fence as explorer was in 1859,
when he accompanied Torrell on
his expedition. Upon his return
he was nominated director of
Riks museum. In 1861 he went
to SpitZbergen with Torrell. Three
years later he headed the expedition
which successfully completed the meas
urement and mapped the southern part
of Spitzbergen. The Nordenskjold eX-
petition in 1865 completed observations
which accurately fixed the position of
that land, and attained the attitude of
81 degrees and ~ minutes. which has
only twice been exceeded. In 1870 the
explorer made a scientific tour in Green
land. Expeditions led by him in 1872
and 1873 were succeeded by the most i'm
portant of his enterprises thus far. This
was undertaken in 1873 for the purpose
of exploring the North Polar sea
from the mouth of the YeneSei east
to Behring strait. Nordenskjold left
GOthenburg July, 1878, and reached
Yokohama in September, 1879. AS a re-
suit of this brilliant achievement he an
nounced the opinions that cOmmunica-
ton by sea for commercial purposes is
practical between Europe and the Obi
YeneSei; also that the voyage from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, on the Siberian
sea, can be done. but would be useless
to commerce; and that further eXplOra-
ton is necessary to determine whether
sea communication between the Pacific
and the mouth of the Lena can be es-
tabliShed.
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A Foil to Her Beauty.

Omaha World, ~
First Omaha Girl-Miss Beauty is en-
gagged to Mr.. Smikes. Do you know
him?
Second Omaha Girl do not remem-
her him.
eff you'd ever seen him you wouldn't
forget it. He's the homeliest, ugliest
Hooking man in all Nebraska"
"He is?"
Eyes; she couldn't have found a more
becoming husband anywhere. His face
sets off hers gloriously."
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Restrain Your Appreciation.

Fall River Advance.
1t may be pardonable in man who
has enjoyed a really good dinner to de-
sire to go dewn into the kitchen and kiss
the pretty coollmaid, but he'd better not
say so if his wife is around. There are
mits to be shown to the servants she has
chosen.
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tic of the Scandinavians of the present
day than it was OF their rowing fore
fathers.
Therein, in fact. lies the secret of
their success as citizens of this great re-
public: therein, also. their intrinsic
value, independent OF everything else,
to the American commonwealth.
IUTH JAEGER.
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Gustayus AdoIphus College

This institution is owned and con-
trolled by the Minnesota conference of
the Swedish Lutheran Augustana
Synod. Early in the history of the con-
ference the necessity of a school in
which the children of the church could
be educated under the influence of the
church became manifest. An academy
was begun at Red Wing in 1862, which,
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another of
n Orw a y S
great sons,
was born
July 80, 1916,
on his faith
er's, Jacob
S v erdrup's,
IN a II o I ,
called Jarls-
berg. III i S
mother was
a Dane; but
the one who
III a de the
deepest of
inpressiO II S
on the young
JOhan W a S
his a II IL t ,
ia beth
Il i + & i t t e
SV prdrun
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NeXtin pop

NeXtin pop
ulari t y tt
Wer gela II e
comes Biorn
stjerne Bjorn
son, the sue
ceSSor of the
"Sy item d t
mar move
nent in Nor
sway. He was
BORN Dee. s,
1892, in Kvik-
ne, a rural
district in the
central part
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bank, and many gleeful hour has been
spent there by the ScandinavianS under
the auspices of this society. Mr.. Ben
nett is the president of the Norden
society.
SOCIETY DANA.
The Danish born citizens in Mime
apolis are by far the least numerous of
the three Scandinavian natiOnalities
But they have proved themselves to fill
this lack in numbers with remarkable
activity and harmonious pulling to-
gether. On the 18th of November, 1875
they organized the DANA society,
which now is in vigorous existence with
l59 good standing members. AT pres
ent c. Jorgenson is the president,
n. Nelson, vice president; A.
{. Lass, cashier, and l.. ii.
Anderson, secretary of the organi-
zation. Their semi-monthly meetings
are now held in their own building, the
DANA hall, on the corner of Cedar ave-
nue. and Fifth street. The Danes were
the first ones of the Scandinavians to
manage 50 as to have their own hall.
The hall IS built by stock company,
with a capital of S25,O00, incorporated
under the laws of Minnesota as the
DANA Hall Building association. And
to show the zeal in the matter, it might
be of interest to state that $1,000 was
subscribed at the first meeting of the
| DANA society after the incorporation
| The hall is built after the design
and under the supervision of the Nor
wegian architect, Carl F. Struck. 1t is
a four-story brick structure, with three
stores on the ground floor, six offices
and diverse club rooms on the second
floor, while the third and fourth stories
contain the hall, Rage and galleries. Its
capacity for sitting places is about 500,
and it costs $4,000. With the present
good management the association
will, i'll few years, have
cleared all their pecuniary obligations.
The decoration of the hall was done by
the Danish painter, Prof. Z. Clausen,
whose fine work has been admired, for
instance. in the Grand opera and else
where. In Dania hall the curtain
especially calls for attention, and to
those who are acquainted with Danish
scenery it is strikingly natural, and
bears a touching resemblance to the
genuine home ground.
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The Swedes and Danes Are To-Day the
Guests of the Generous and
Jubilant Norwegians,
And Consequently Their Great Hen
Come in for a Share of the At
tention Of the Public.
Some Of the Historical Personages
Whose Names Shine in the Scandi-
navian Crown of Brightness.
Poets, Novelists and Voyagers---Syea
and DANA Fully Represented
in the Trinity.

At the opening of the present century
the monarchy of Sweden lay defenseless
and almost moribvnd, supported in Eu-
ropean opinion solely by the memory OF
its vast prestige. The dynasty of WasaS
which had held the crown for nearly
two centuries, was approaching its last
degeneracy in the person of Gustavus
Nv. The old order was passing away
and at this eventful moment the great
est of Swedish poets was born.
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In Sketching the life Of THIS great Nor
Yegian dramatiSt. we will follow almost

verbatim
Edin an d
W. Gosse,
who has
WI t ten
the best
sketch BIZ
ographic-
al 10 be
found in
the Eli
glisl lit
erature of
t o. d Il y.
L here
j S no w
living at
Munich, "
so t h e
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streets were draped with black flags
and great multitude followed the biel
To the grave. SO passed away the mo;
popular OF Northern poets, in the 3Sti
wear of his life.
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poems, entitled '.Svea'' Gs11. which OBJ
tanned the prize from the Swedish acad-
envy: children of the Lords
Supper $500, and ''Axel' Qs21.)
Having graduated in theology.
he was appointed in 1924 bishop of ]
WeXio. His ''Frithiofsraga, = published
in 1925, is esteemed his best production:
1t has obtained a worldwide reputation
and been translated into the princiz-
pal modern languages. four different
man. Several of his poems have been
translated by Longfellow. Tegner died.,
in November, 1876. and a colossal statue;
admirably eqecuted by Svanstrom, was
raised to his memory at Lund in 1858.
BARON A. e. NORDENSKJoLD.
Left Erikson was the first great ex-
plorer that Scandinavia has produced.
Baron AdOlDh Eric NOrdenskiold is the
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ground solidly with about 12s
members. For six years past, the
organization has held its meetings and
festivals at the rented place, NOrden
nall corner Washington and First avenue
south, over the Northwestern National
bank, and many gleeful hour has been
spent there by the Scandinavians under
the auspices of this society. Mr.. Ben
nett is the president of the Norden
society.
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newe st in
point Of
time. Here
is a short
biog raphyS
Adolph Eric
Y rs densk.
j d W as
born atHek+
ingfors on
Nov. 1S,1S3s
His father
was chief of
the Finland
mining de-
artm e mt.
Early in his
life it was
o b s erv eF
that the lad
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Esaias Teg-
her was born
in Wernleland
i'll 1892. He
studied at the
University of
Lund, and in
Is II became
professor Of
Greek in that
instit u ton.
He had previ-
ously publish
ed a number
of lyrics, and